Derry poet’s second collection dives deeper into religious and historical themes

When we consider the many and ongoing erasures of queer history, the baffling silences of the archives, it is deeply moving to see a world, far off from our own, with queerness flowing through its very fabric

The Home Child by Berry; The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday by Emma Must; Brother Poem by Will Harris; Last Poems by Kinsella

Reviews: Separated from the Sun; The Book of Desire; Arctic Elegies; The Thankless Paths to Freedom

There is wit, daring and a sense of otherworldliness in many of this year’s finest collections

Reviews: Four collections of exceptional quality, including the US poet laureate, two Irish giants and an arresting, elegiac debut

Seán Hewitt on Quiet; Beast; Scale; and Cnámh agus Smior/Bone and Marrow

Poetry reviews

Róisín Tierney, Nithy Kasa, Jim McElroy, Paul Tran and Denise Riley reviewed

‘I am only interested in things I cannot do, that is the thrill of poetry,’ says prize-winning poet whose home is in Dublin

Collections from Kaveh Akbar, Louise C Callaghan, Shaun Hill and Naush Sabah

TS Eliot Prize winner on absence, community and the importance of the ‘live poet’

Annemarie Ní Churreáin has published a second collection called The Poison Glen, plus work from Lila Matsumoto, Paul Muldoon and Tua Forsström

Autumn Skies is an excellent introduction, surveying both classic poems and lesser-known works

Collections from John Fitzgerald, Amanda Bell, Hannah Lowe and Togara Muzanenhamo